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In reply to the discussion: Wanna join me in feeling really old? I just stumbled on this list, [View all]boonecreek
(1,274 posts)57. Funny Green Stamp story.
        Like many people, my mother collected S&H Green Stamps. So anyway, there was
a redemption center at either a Wieboldt's or Goldblatt's store in the Lincoln & Belmont
shopping area on the north side of Chicago. One evening she and my father went to
redeem the stamp booklets which she kept in a brown paper bag. So they're going out
the back door and my mother grabs the first bag she sees. At the redemption center
she picks out what she wanted but noticed that the bag that supposedly had the booklets
in it had some grease spots. Embarrassed by this she dumped the bag out and half 
a dozen chocolate donuts go rolling around the counter. The part that really frosted  
my mom was that my dad stood there like he had no idea who this woman was.
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        LOL! I guess you didn't have a dog who lurked under the table, hoping for a handout.
        Ocelot II
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        Good stuff, but hip folk of all ages use clotheslines more these days than last couple of decades.
        Bernardo de La Paz
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        I loved my clothesline! I had one until I moved into this community..still have the wooden clothespins
        Deuxcents
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        "being told not to seem too smart at school because boys don't like smart girls"
        Diamond_Dog
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        In those days of girls having to wear dresses or skirts, we girls often worried more...
        3catwoman3
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        Ohioan here.  I thought *everybody* had a blanket like that in their car trunk.
        Diamond_Dog
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        In Minnesota you not only had a blanket, you had (and still have) a winter kit
        Ocelot II
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        Flav-R Straws! I'd forgotten about those. They were terrible but we loved them.
        Ocelot II
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